“If you want soldiers you must have children. You can't buy 'em in boxes, like toy soldiers.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But a mother is like a broomstick or like the sun in the heavens, it does not matter which as far as… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them,… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
